Example sentences of "[been] given to the " in BNC.

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1 No fewer than 23,000 copies of a glossy PSA calendar have been given to the troops .
2 Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death .
3 Now , if it had simply been given to the woman , Common Law would have said , ‘ We can pay no attention to this separate use .
4 Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated .
5 Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society .
6 However , last summer I saw German secret high command diaries , charts and maps , which have been given to the Imperial War Museum .
7 Although due emphasis has rightly been given to the quality of the care , the first priority is the provision of sufficient places in residential establishments .
8 Although much attention has focused on the number of people out of work in recent years , less attention has been given to the number of family members who are also affected .
9 Recent attention has also been given to the diabetic with regard to ethnic differences in serum lipid levels which have been observed in the non-diabetic population .
10 what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 …
11 Finally , relatively little emphasis has been given to the management of data as a corporate resource , available to a wide community : many environmental data are collected on a project-by-project basis and ‘ lost ’ once the urgency of the initial research is over .
12 In dry parts of the world , such as Australia , forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts .
13 At this stage the actual response categories may not have been considered in detail , but if the questions themselves justify inclusion some thought should have been given to the response categories envisaged for analysis since it is the answers which will be analysed .
14 In only two wells has special attention been given to the mud system .
15 Priority has been given to the juristic sources so far , since the concern here is with interpretation , and documents clearly do not attest how they were themselves interpreted .
16 Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ .
17 Particular attention had been given to the design of heated support bearings to prevent an increase in their mechanical resistance when the lubricant stiffened with a drop in temperature .
18 In this connection considerable thought has been given to the nature and magnitude of the resulting biologically effective radiation dose to the general population .
19 Sadly , far less publicity has been given to the Brandt Commission 's second report , Common Crisis , North South , Co-operation for World Recovery .
20 As stated earlier , less attention has been paid to the factors that determine the readability of illustrations than has been given to the readability of text .
21 The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban .
22 It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street .
23 those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ;
24 Straight away it becomes obvious that even if delicate species could grow in such a small tank , no consideration has been given to the system 's stability under such a heavy load .
25 The body has been left unfinished , and only an oil sealant has been given to the wood to protect it .
26 If credit , such as a loan , has been given to the offeree , then following cancellation the question of the recovery of that loan arises .
27 ‘ PW felt , rightly , that much of the information had already been given to the Bank …
28 W A Blackburn QC , sitting as deputy judge of the High Court , considered whether notice of the total amount payable had been given to the debtor .
29 Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution .
30 Favourable treatment has been given to the small shareholder , when allocating oversubscribed issues , in some of the privatisation issues .
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